Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Sunday, August 29, 2010

We are so excited for this years FYF Fest! It's gonna be great...it might even be better than an origami x-wing. Because we know you are as excited as we are we're gonna let you in on some rad ways to get hooked up with FYF Tix!

• Eskuché & FYF have teamed up make sure you get in this year. The next 5 people to purchase a pair of Eskuché headphones at Origami Vinyl will receive a free pair of FYF tickets.

• Use your hawklike vision to scour the Origami Vinyl twitterM for FYF ticket giveaways that we will be doing all week.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Alpine Decline is one of our favorite new local duo's. Plain & simple...we love their record! It was quite a surprise, not that it was good, and it's really good, but more that we hadn't heard of them until they dropped off their record. They come off as a dreamier counterpart to bands like Built To Spill & Dinosaur Jr with tinges of post rock à la Do Make Say Think. Now, if you stop by the shop there's a good chance you'll hear it on the ol' Origami stereo...or you can scroll down to check out some tracks and get super stoked like us!

Tomorrow night you will be able to hear first hand what we are so excited about when they step into our loft at 7pm to stir our minds and hearts.

Come by today at 1pm to catch the Nate LaPointe Band in a special afternoon show. The group, based out of Southern California, has roots in a strong jazz background with eclectic songwriting and rootsy improvisation as its basis. This is gonna be a jam!

Friday, August 27, 2010

Tonight in the Origami Loft we have World Club from Vancouver, BC. Bringing us their dreamy, dense and hypnotic indie-rock-electro-dance-whatever-the-hell-it's-called-it-just-makes-me-move kind of music. Yeah...it's real, real good.

This is short notice but we are really excited to have them here...parkas and all! come down and check out a band you will be hearing much more about in the future.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

If you know us then you know we love our post-punk and tonight features Cat Party who definitely bring that early 80's UK sound. Having been compared to bands like early U2 and The Wipers, Cat Party have been tearing up the west coast with Estranged and Dunes. It's gonna be loud, it's gonna be fun, bring your ear plugs!

Monday, August 16, 2010

Our friends over at Aquarium Drunkard have just premiered the video for Summer Darling's song, The One Who Loves You, directed by Jack Schlinkert and shot by Max Sweeney from Happy Independent Thoughts. The video captures the band performing a stripped down version of the song on the streets of Silver Lake during their July residency at Spaceland.

Friday, August 13, 2010

Come down and see these rad math pop kids from Washington called Rooftops. Super gorgeous head-y tunes that just saw a release on Topshelf Records. We really don't think you should miss this one as we've been looking forward to this for a long time.

Today's forecast: Sassy, infectious twee-pop in the shape of SF's Social Studies. This foursome will shower you with tracks from their new album Wind Up Wooden Heart which is receiving glowing reviews from Daytrotter, RCRD LBL, NME + more. It's not on vinyl yet (we're crossing our fingers) but come down and snag up their Weathered White 7".

Also, this is a pretty kick-ass review: "San Fran fruit-jugglers Social Studies make twee sound brawny. Who else does that? “Holler Boys,” layers background bleeps, twiddling guitar, soft percussion and radiant female vocals into a shape-shifter—there is no pure verse chorus verse, and each swell breaks in a new direction. Next, indie-pop croon-tune “Time Bandit” is another pretty surprise." - RCRD LBL

Friday, August 6, 2010

We have a doubleheader spectacular tonight at Origami with San Francisco's freak funk outfit Battlehooch at 5pm and followed by local rockers Jinsai at 7pm. Both bands are celebrating their newly released LPs that we have in-stock!

Monday, August 2, 2010

Their latest EP Bright Bright Bright has been gracing our turntable frequently as of late.The core of Dark Dark Dark is accordion/pianist Nona Marie Invie and banjo/clarinetist Marshall LaCount, currently rounded out by Jonathan Kaiser on cello and Brett Bullion on drums with Todd Chandler & Walt McClements. Over a series of EPs (most recently the Bright Bright Bright EP released in April) and their 2008 full-length debut, The Snow Magic, Dark Dark Dark have crafted an exquisitely orchestral body of musical work that is as personally felt as it is grandly affecting. - Cake In 15

We'll also be having a lil' party at the OV tonight to celebrate one of our favoritest (LA) bands of all time. Transit Transit the long awaited album from Autolux comes out on August 3rd. The band is rumored to be hanging out here for a bit, so stop by, hear the new record, and get it a day early. I think some ale and pizza may be in it for you as well!

UPDATE: Turns out the vinyl of "Transit Transit" has been delayed until August 10th, However the band was gracious enough to wrangle up 10 copies for the party tonight at 8pm. Get here early and be one of the first (of 10) to have this on vinyl!!! There is a slim to no chance the band will actually be able to stop by however. Still, we know how to party, so it'll be a good time!

Sunday, August 1, 2010

How's your week going? It's been a hectic one over here what with the Summer Darling record coming out, many new releases and the multitude of in-stores we've been having.

Well, tonight we are looking forward to nothing more than to chill out, have a few beers with YOU and let Pure Ecstasy & Sleep∞Over close out our week on a blissful note.

Pure Ecstasy - Led by singer-songwriter Nate Grace, Austin's Pure Ecstasy make lo-fi tunes insulated by plenty of reverb. Their music is simple, warm, direct. In a track review of their best song to date, the woozy "Easy", Pitchfork's Joe Colly said it sounds like "the long comedown after an all-night beach party." - Pitchfork

Sleep∞Over - Austin trio Sleep∞Over's brooding sound has sometimes been slotted with "witch house", but this new track from the band takes their haunting sound in a dreamier direction, resembling what Beach House might sound like if they played in a graveyard. - Chocolate Bobka